Motivational Quotes

Death

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Death

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

10.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

11.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

12.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

13.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

17.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

18.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

19.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

20.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

21.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

22.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

23.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

25.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

26.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

27.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

28.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

30.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

31.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

32.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

33.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

34.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

35.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

37.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

38.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

39.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

40.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

41.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

42.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

43.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

44.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

45.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

49.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.